1993 Postgraduate grant NUFFIC, Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education at Free University of Amsterdam, Institute for Lexicology; University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Italian Linguistics.

2016-2017 Fondi di Ateneo per la Ricerca (FAR), Pavia University. Linguistic Patterns for political legitimation in the media: a lexical semantic study based on distributional methods (in collaboration with School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London).

2015 "Corpus Patterns for Semantic Processing", with Patrick Hanks, Daisuke Kawahara, Octavian Popescu. Proceeding of the Tutorials of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and 7th International Joint Conference on NLP of the Asian Federation of NLP (IJCNLP), Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015, Association for Computational Linguistics, 12-15.

2009 "Argument structure binding and event nominal polysemy". In Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages. Collection of the papers selected from the CIL 18, Held at Korea University in Seoul, July 21-26, 2008. Published by LSK, The Linguistic Society of Korea, Republic of Korea, 1189-1209.

2001 "Gradual vs. Total Completion and Event Structure in Italian Unaccusative Verbs". In P. Bouillon and K. Kanzaki (eds), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon. Université de Genève, École de Traduction et d’Interprétation.

2017 "Stretching the meaning of words". Conference on Logic and Machine Learning in Natural Language (LaML), Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), University of Gothenburg (June 12-14).

2006 "Parts of Speech Transcategorizations". 39th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Relativism and Universalism in Linguistics, University of Bremen, August 30 – Sept. 2, with P. Ramat.

2006 "On Transcategorizations" Conference on Universality and Particularity in Parts-of-Speech Systems. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication, June, 8-10, with Paolo Ramat.

2006 "The acquisition of Light Verb Constructions in Italian as Second Language". Annual Meeting of the Language Acquisition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Phycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, March 24-25, with Fabiana Rosi.

2004 "Lexical structure of verbs: a comparison of models and formalisms". International Conference on The Lexicon: its status in the theory of language. Linguistic Association of Finland, University of Turku, Nov. 18-19.

2015 "Corpus Patterns for Semantic Processing", with Patrick Hanks, Octavian Popescu and Daisuke Kawahara. Tutorial at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015) and 7th International Joint Conference on NLP of the Asian Federation of NLP, Beijng, July 26.